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**A SPOILER OR TWO** When Dalinar was talking to God in the last vision, God told him that Odium's plan was to bide his time because he knew the people would do more damage to themselves than he could do. I don't know if the loss of information was due to Odium or to basic human power struggles; Sanderson manages to write parallels between Roshar and our world and our world has shown that victors write the history. Perhaps they wanted it to look like the KR abandoned the people when something on a much larger, much less controllable level happened. I don't think Karbranth is the hub of all the old knowledge, however. We saw that Taravagian was part of some organization that was very dark and widespread and that Jasnah was having problems finding anything mentioning the times of the Voidbringers; there is probably a secret store of arcane texts belonging to whatever group the king belongs to. Re-reading the prologue of WOK, it seems like Teln was the only one holding back any further Desolations. Did the KR abandon their posts because they felt like they weren't needed? Were they being treated like the personal army of kings? Maybe the people BETRAYED them. I just can't wait for this to unfold in future books.